Anthony Mackie Quotes
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best endings are those that emerge only after I've thought long and hard about the various ways the story might end. Then I choose the ending that seems surprising yet somehow inevitable.
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There's something really amazing about watching an actor like Michael C. Hall or Jennifer Carpenter, who are completely professional and do everything so brilliantly, but yet can have a really great time on set.
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Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.
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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
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If I moved, he moved. If I stopped, he stopped. It was a duel.
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Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
